What to Do in Mexico City in March 2018

March 5, 2018

What's happening in the city this month.

Love to eat (just not meat)

This month, Tasty Bites Food Tours is launching a new Vegan Walking Food Tour in the chic Colonia Roma neighborhood as a way to tap into the city’s emerging vegan food scene. The stops feature fresh local ingredients with tastings ranging from tacos to Mexican pizza and ice cream, and all the bites on the tour are free of gluten and all animal products, including lard, which has a way of sneaking into most “vegetarian” Mexican cooking.

Need some help keeping a promise?

During Public Trust, a two-week interactive event at the city’s contemporary art hub Museo Jumex, visitors make a promise that will be recorded and turned into a drawing they can take home. Their promises will be published on a large marquee in the museum’s plaza, alongside pledges that politicians, scientists, economists, and weather forecasters make every day. Nothing like a public declaration to hold you to your words.

Rock on with the locals

Vive Latino, one of the largest rock festivals in Latin America, is taking place this year on March 17 and 18 at the Foro Sol arena, not far from the airport. While it spotlights popular Latin performers, it also features big name international artists—like this year’s performers, Morrissey and Queens of the Stone Age.

Find religion, if just for a week

Even if you’re not religious, Semana Santa (Holy Week), this year March 25 to April 1, is taken pretty seriously in Mexico City and it’ll be hard to not get swept along. There will be special services daily at the Metropolitan Cathedral, Latin America’s oldest and largest cathedral, that opens onto the bustling Plaza de la Constitucion in downtown. This iconic baroque and gothic building is always worth a visit, but if you peek in on Holy Thursday, the altars and halls will overflow with flowers.